Dell Enterprise Forum in San Jose is three weeks away and Dell Software will be there for the first time in full force! Join us for Dell Enterprise Forum US 2013, where you’ll learn how to optimize your enterprise, end to end. Get more out of the products you already own, and discover new solutions that drive efficiency, flexibility and reliability in the modern data center. The conference showcases the Dell enterprise portfolio—from servers, storage and networking to services,...

Dell Weekly Recap: News & Customer Spotlight Welcome to the latest edition of Dell’s Weekly Recap, your guide to the week's Dell-related news and happenings. TOP STORY OF THE WEEK Solar Conduction Dryer Wins the Dell Social Innovation Challenge Solar Conduction Dryer has been awarded the $60,000 grand prize in the 2013 Dell Social Innovation Challenge, after competing against 2,600 entries from over 100 countries. The student team is developing technology that will...

NEPs, ISVs, and mobile operators often ask, “what sort of features or specs are included on Dell’s carrier grade products?” It makes sense that our customers and partners need to understand the various specifications and options available as they build and design their own solutions. Today, we’re pleased to announce our Dell OEM Carrier Grade Systems Online Demo , an interactive tool that virtually provides product demos of our family of carrier grade products. We launched...

In any enterprise-sized deal it can sometimes be a complicated, time-consuming job to work out what hardware and software is actually needed. From understanding the best licensing regime to working out how many blades, ports or VMs are required, the different variables can make for some very complex calculations. All of these were excellent reasons for us to launch the Dell Solutions Configurator tool a few weeks ago. It’s built for Dell Partners, and it’s intended to make it easy...

Congratulations to Dell PartnerDirect first Engineer Club award winners! Back in Oct 2012 we launched the first Engineer Club in China, also the first of a series planned for Asia Pacific, which kicked off with an exclusive event in Beijing attended by 65 Engineers. On April 16, Dell and 33 Engineers Club members gathered again in Beijing to celebrate the first Engineers Club Awards. A few awards and prizes were handed out: A special award was handed for the “Highest Involvement...

Dell today announced Q1 revenue of $14.1 billion and non-GAAP earnings of $0.21 per share. You can tune into Dell’s Q1 Earnings Conference Call at 3:45pm Central Time, or follow @DellShares or #DellEarnings on Twitter. For more insight about the quarter overall, click over to read Rob Williams’ post over on the DellShares blog (or click on the image below):

The Dell Channel and Enablement Team is pleased to announce the availability of direct course links. In the past, once in the portal, it was necessary to go to the Training and Competencies page and click on “enroll in eLearning” which would take you to the Partner Learning Center landing page. Once on the landing page, you would then have to search for your course. Now, as long as you are logged into the portal, you can click on any course link from the course catalog, training newsletters...

Dell changes the game in cloud client computing once again as one of the industry’s first thin client providers to offer thin clients based on Windows Embedded 8 Standard combining the security, low power, and high performance benefits of the Dell Wyse D class and Z class thin client platforms with the latest advances of the Windows Embedded 8 platform for a more robust virtual desktop environment. Features like multi-touch, modern UI and gestures and access to Windows 8 apps offer the end...

Today, we are excited to announce our expanded Dell Precision workstation portfolio that will help redefine the boundaries of workstation computing for our customers. At Dell, our goal is to give customers the power to do more through secure, manageable and reliable solutions as well as through cutting-edge technology, which is why I am even more excited to present the new Dell Precision workstations. Note: Click on any of the images in this post to see larger versions. Visit the Dell Precision...

Thanks to those of you who tuned in for the Dell Social Innovation Think Tank livestream yesterday. Also thanks to the great group of participants that took part in the actual event yesterday in Austin. Last night, Dell named Solar Conduction Dryer the grand prize winner for of the 2013 Dell Social Innovation Challenge . You can read more about Solar Conduction Dryer see the complete list of finalists that competed for the grand prize over at Tech Page One (or click on the image below). ...

At Dell we’re constantly striving to find solutions that can help our customers achieve more and consume less in an environmentally responsible way. We also have an ongoing commitment to minimise the impact of our own IT on the planet, across our operations, our product range and our supply chain. Not only because it’s the right thing to do, but because it makes smart business sense. So I’m delighted to report that as a result of this continued focus, we’ve recently...

At the National Association of Broadcasters Show last month, Dell launched “ Dell Create ,” a consulting practice dedicated to helping our media & entertainment customers transition to a new, groundbreaking datacenter model that will define the next generation of enterprises making and distributing content. We also partnered with Red Giant to premier their latest short film, Spy vs. Guy . The film and the behind-the-scenes movie showcased how Dell Precision workstations and our partners’...

Note from Editor: This post was co-authored with Karl Kuhnhausen, Practice Director—Dell Services Does your company run multiple line-of-business (LOB) systems like SAP , SalesForce.com , Oracle or Microsoft Dynamics that are difficult to integrate and present to end users to enable them to make better business decisions? If you face this problem, join our May 22 webcast, “ Best Practices for Connecting Business-critical Data into SharePoint ,” at which SharePoint experts from...

In our latest Threat Research Update webinar I highlighted recent examples of mobile malware, information-stealing Trojans and the Blackhole Exploit Kit, which my team captured as they worked to bring latest protection to the Dell Next-Generation Firewalls . The telemetry data that we obtain from the large installed base of our Next-Generation Firewalls helps to enhance our threat prevention. Several months ago, the team discovered the Android-based SuperClean malware, which was available through...

Today, along with Intel, we released a research report called Understanding the State of Local Startups and Small Businesses . This report reflects the collective research we completed across nine cities we visited over the last several months. Folks from our Small Business team helped organize a series of Think Tank discussions to focus on small business owners and entrepreneurs. These events happened Miami and Atlanta in June, San Francisco , Chicago , Los Angeles and Orange County and Austin...

Dell is committed to helping customers turn the proliferation of data into a competitive advantage. We offer pre-integrated systems and services that speed deployment and reduce time to value for running SAP HANA workloads. And, today we’re pleased to announce that the Dell Active Infrastructure family for SAP HANA is validated to run SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA. We’ve also made significant updates to our solutions and services to make it even easier for customers to deploy...

“How can we help the world as entrepreneurs? Make more and give more.” With this statement, CNN founder Ted Turner kicked off this year’s Global Entrepreneurs Council (GEC). This year, I was fortunate enough to receive an invitation to be a part of the 2013 - 2014 class of GEC members. I joined fellow entrepreneurial leaders last month in Washington, DC for two motivational days discussing how entrepreneurs can work with the UN to change the world for the better. “The Global...

Dell Weekly Recap: News & Customer Spotlight Welcome to the latest edition of Dell’s Weekly Recap, your guide to the week's Dell-related news and happenings. TOP STORY OF THE WEEK Dell Acquires Cloud-Management Software Firm Enstratius Dell has announced the acquisition of Enstratius, an award-winning enterprise cloud management company that helps IT organizations deploy and manage enterprise-class applications across public, private and hybrid clouds... DELL4GOOD...

Recently I had the opportunity to join a panel of industry thought leaders in a timely session on DM Radio that focused on new roles in information management . So of course it didn’t take long before the conversation turned to the role of the data scientist. After all, Harvard Business Review calls this up-and-coming position, the “ sexiest job of the 21st century .” We can thank Big Data for this sudden popularity. Data scientists combine technical savvy and innate curiosity...

This week at Interop 2013, Dell demonstrated our commitment and leadership to Security at the premier IT Security event of the year. On Tuesday, we kicked off the week in front of 12,000 attendees, furthering our leadership by unveiling Dell’s SonicWALL Network Security Appliance (NSA) Series Next-Generation Firewalls to the industry. Dell’s presence on the show floor was unparalleled. Our security experts located at the Security Zone, in the Dell Security Products booth and our main...

This week we announced the Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) developed by Airbus and Dell OEM . It's an electronic information management device that helps flight crews perform flight management tasks more easily and efficiently with less paper. Reinforcing Dell’s commitment to aviation industry, Dell OEM Solutions will source, configure, and support the solution for Airbus’ single-aisle aircraft in both forward-fit and retrofit scenarios. We will deliver the EFB on Latitude E6330 notebooks...

This post is co-authored with Patrick Sweeney, Executive Director, Product Management, Dell SonicWall. Last week, everyone, ( including us ) was talking about data breaches, as the Verizon 2012 Data Breach Investigations Report had just been released. Data is often top of mind in security because it represents all that is valuable ─ customer details, intellectual property, finances, etc. Additionally, as we know, data comes in many forms, from structured data in databases to unstructured formats...

It seems as though the impending death of traditional middleware has been predicted since before the start of the New Millennium. So, is its demise imminent or will it simply fade over time as organizations increasingly adopt cloud-based integration solutions? There’s no debate that traditional middleware is declining as organizations increasingly move from on-premise to cloud-based systems. In its worldwide forecast of enterprise software markets worldwide, Gartner forecasts only an increase...

On 2 nd June, the fourth annual Dell Women’s Entrepreneur Network global event will kick off in Istanbul, Turkey. As a vibrant city in one of the fastest growing markets in the world, I’m thrilled that Istanbul will have the opportunity to host over 200 inspirational female entrepreneurs, business leaders and media from the Americas, EMEA and APJ. A three-day event, the Dell Women’s Entrepreneur Network conference will highlight the positive impact women have on business and technology...

Earlier this week, Dell and the entire research computing community joined the University of Florida in celebrating the dedication of the university’s new high performance computing cluster “HiPerGator .” HiPerGator is Florida’s most powerful supercomputer providing 150 trillion calculations per second to support 160 research teams with over 500 researchers and $161 million in research grants. Equally critical to the systems is the high- capacity data pipeline that will...